Dear Someone.

I am a complete and utter noob, so be gentle with me!

I have Windows XP Home, 1 GIG Ram and an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard. And a prog. called Music Write that lets you create little MIDI files. Right now, while I'm learning how to make music, I'm just using this and the General MIDI sounds in Windows.

Thing is, how do I record them as sound files? I don't want to distribute them or anything, just for my own pleasure. Music Write doesn't record. Windows Recorder does, but only in 1 minute doses. I've tried a bunch of record- everything-you-hear progs and they all tell me there's something wrong with the mixer on my Audiophile control panel - but they don't tell me what. And I don't want to muck about with settings I don't understand, incase I stop getting sounds altogether!

Anyone got any ideas? If it's any help, I'm getting 2 lines of bouncing light in the control panel column labelled Wav/Out 1/2, whenever I play or hear anything, no lights anywhere else. Including the column called Master Volume. No lights there at all. Yet I can hear all sounds perfectly.

I'll happily try all suggestions, as long as they're physically possible(!) and thank the person who solves the mystery.

ulrichburke.